A closer look at how I think about decisions in a business, and what I’m working through in my own.
CEO Mindset
What Are the Biggest Signs My Business Is Too Owner-Dependent? Your business should run without you. If it does not, you own a job with overhead. What most owners miss is the…
Coaching Insights
How Do I Know If I Should Niche Down My Business Coaching Offer? The business is generating revenue, but the owner cannot repeat how. Every client feels like a different engagement. The…
Delegation and Team
Should I Hire a VA or an Operator First for My Business? Most founders ask the wrong question. They ask “who should I hire first?” when the real question is “what problem…
Business Building
How to Get Your Business Ready for Sale Before You’re Ready to Exit Getting your business ready for sale comes down to four moves: document your processes, build a team that can…
Scaling and Growth
How to Separate Your Identity from Your Business So You Can Scale You are not your business. The problem is, most owners act like they are. They stay in every decision. They…
Systems and SOPs
How to Document SOPs So Your Business Is No Longer in Your Head Every decision that requires your input, every process only you know how to run, every time someone waits for…
Business Building
How to Make Your Business Transferable Before You’re Ready to Exit Owners think about transferability too late. They wait until a buyer shows up, a health scare forces the question, or a…
Delegation and Team
How to Delegate Without Losing Control of Quality Most operators do not have a delegation problem. They have a documentation problem. The work lives in your head. The standard lives in your…
Systems and SOPs
How Do I Know Which Processes to Systemize First in My Company? Operators often try to document everything at once and finish nothing. The question is never whether to build systems. It…
Delegation and Team
How to Build a Leadership Team That Can Run the Business Without You The business stalls the moment the owner becomes the ceiling on growth. The question is not whether your business…
Systems and SOPs
Proactive Business Systems vs Reactive Management: Why One Builds a Company and the Other Traps You Every day starts with whatever broke overnight. Every week is shaped by whoever called loudest. The…
Coaching Insights
Coaching Fails When It Tries to Motivate Instead of Diagnose A coach skips the diagnosis and goes straight to the prescription. That is not coaching. That is a motivational speech with a…